Twisted Fate

Hiatus is finally lifted.

Happy Bonifacio Day. Alas, we have this holiday off. Now, we await the storm.

I'm not supposed to be at the computer right now. My parents threatened commanded me to rest my sprained ankle, but I still have lots to do for school.

Wait, what sprained ankle? I'll talk about that, then.

This is the second time I sprained an ankle. It was during a basketball game in PE. The other team was trying to shoot the ball. I don't remember how it really happened, but I recall being pushed and my right leg bending sideways. Everyone was running to the other basket when I stood up and realized I twisted my ankle. I guess no one else besides the teacher and his next class noticed I had a sprain. Some of them even helped me down the stairs of the gym. But the clinic was across the oval, being frustratingly far for someone who has a hard time walking. After limping through the field and 15 minutes of cold compress at the clinic, I remembered that I had to go to the 4th floor of the building for a long test. Then I limped again downstairs to the ground floor, to the cafeteria for a while, then to the service bus which was across the oval. It was nightmarish.

My folks at home got surprised about my ankle. For the first time in a while, I had the right to treat my younger siblings as slaves >:D (They were willing to...). It was just hard to get around the house to study for the next day, finish our report, to eat at the table and to go to the bathroom. My ankle swelled up a lot that night.

The next day, I planned to go to school using the service bus >_<, attend the first two subjects where in the second one we had a long test (I didn't want to take a post quarter test this quarter.) and go homeafter that. I didn't get to talk about the plan for the project we were going to cram do for tomorrow, and didn't hear of anything from my groupmates besides the time they called to get my locker code. Our materials for the project were there. I slept the whole day. The sprain started getting bruises. Now I'm too squemish to even look at it.

In the afternoon, I heard that classes the next day were suspended. To think I still had too much to do, I left books at the locker I needed to review, and lots of important stuff.

Now I'm here typing this post. I still can't walk, and I had a hard time going upsatirs to the room. The sprain looks worse, more swollen and bruised, but I'm not worried about that right now. I'm more worried about the requirements for next week and the periodical tests.

Of all times to get a sprained ankle.


Signing off.


*Edit (Dec. 1)- added title*

Hiatus on Hell Week

This is the first time I've put this blog on hiatus. That's because I didn't really need to because my schedule still allowed time for updates. Now, well, my sked is maddening. There's too much work so I couldn't come up with things to post besides complaining about piled-up school work.

I'll be back on December 1 or 2 to update, when I don't have much to do except study for the periodical tests.

Wait for me until then.

I should have put up this kind of announcement a week ago.


Signing off.

Blog post, again. I’m back, still sick and somewhat somber. I don’t feel all that cheerful, yet there’s nothing to be depressed about.

And I’m tired as well. There’s a lot to do at school right now, and I’m tired of staying up late at night, and even on weekends, doing homework, reviewing, etc. Then when I come to school, the work I had done the other night isn’t of any use.

I’m supposed to go to the doctor. I was supposed to for a long time. The colds and cough lasted for almost a month now, yet I haven’t had a check-up yet. My schedule doesn’t time for a check-up :P . Even weekends are filled up with tutorials and homework sessions. Anyway, who gives a darn about health and sanity? Academics seem more important to other people. The adults here can just make a honey and garlic concoction for cough at home (which is very hot) or go to the faith healer in the neighborhood *shudder*. -__-. I still feel sick.

Speaking of tutorials, I really didn’t want to go today. There wasn’t any new lesson to learn, and I found that the introduction to matrices, the next topic in school, was easy. We didn’t start with the introduction. I was taught augmented matrices, which takes a longer time to solve and the concept is harder. It is like solving systems of equations except it was designed for computers. I still don’t get why we have to know how to do that in that case. The problem I was given, a 3x3 square, took 20 minutes for me to solve and get correct. Even the tutor didn’t get the right answers. After that, I was taught multiplicative inverses of matrices. I was taught how to solve it. It’s just like solving augmented matrices. When I had to check if the answer was correct, I found out that I needed to use multiplication to check, which I still didn’t know then. That’s the only time the tutor taught me the definition of matrices, addition, multiplication, all those things which were simpler than the augmented matrices I learned at first. Learning backwards is hard.


Something random:

I just figured out that it’s easier to use a tablet on top of your lap or while holding it and with a laptop. It’s easier for me to use it like that. I haven’t been using it for a while because I don’t have the time and I can’t transfer my line art to the computer (the digicam I use to take a shot of it and upload is broken). Hopefully, I’ll be able to make something with it.

Signing off.

Was the study partner survey in meant to outcast people? Was it to make the ones who didn't have any close friends who would think of them unwanted by the class?

And I thought it would be better at home. I told this to my dad, and he didn't let me finish explaining and started making generalities.

I'm in a bad mood.


I need to cool down. Signing off.

Trip to Majayjay. Do I have to narrate the whole trip like people at school who read my blog expect me to? I don't feel like telling the whole story. It was fun, though.

I'm doing homework, just like whenever I'm online -_- and posting at the same time. It's my dad's birthday today, and I want to finish everything before dinner. I think it's impossible. I still abhor being loaded with requirements, but everything needs to be done. Oh, well.

Everything seems to be going well academically. I'm still whining about all the stuff to do, yet I'm able to get over it. The load is only piling up as homework and take-home quizzes and only 2 projects as of now. The rest of the projects will come a few weeks before the periodical tests.

Now, let’s talk about grades. I was afraid that my grades became lower, but most of them became higher. My overall average is higher; I got an average of 1.464 and I’m back in the Director’s List. Here are my grades, which I don’t know if I should be proud of them or if they’re not high enough to show off.

Biology- 1.50 (one step down)
Chemistry- 2.00 (one step up)
Physics- 1.25 (one step up)
Geometry- 1.75 (retained)
Algebra- 2.00 (retained)
Computer Science- 1.50 (one step down)
English- 1.50 (one step up)
Filipino- 1.25 (retained)
Social Science- 1.00 (one step up)
PEHM- 1.25 (one step up)
Values Education- 1.25 (retained)
Art- 1.25 (one step up)
Environmental Science- 1.50 (one step up)

No time to celebrate now. I've got to finish my homework.


Signing off.

Happy All Saints' Day!

Didn't get to watch those Halloween specials being shown on TV. I would have watched the shows about ghosts and stuff if I wasn't so sleepy.

Who gives homework on such a glorious one-day semestral break? This is the only time we get to go visit the cemetery, stay at the cemetery, go around the cemetery until nightfall, stay over at the cemetery in the dark. Oh, yeah. And clean my room which reminds me of a cemetery.

I don't see why my sister should get her turn in using the computer for the rest of the day. She has her whole sem break to fool around with it and I've got to finish some homework.

In case you didn't notice o_0 I changed the layout.

Signing off.